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Tiny House, Big City
Tiny Houses, as popularized in the news, are typically trailer-mounted and set up either in someone’s backyard as an ADU or are plopped out in the middle of the country. For obvious reasons, throwing...
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A Tiny House You Might Want to Live In
There are so many cool tiny houses making the rounds nowadays, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of them all. But Andrew and Gabriella Morrison’s ‘hOMe’ tiny house is definitely worth tracking. The...
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Small, Stylish Home Takes Over Garage
We’ve expressed our love of the accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in the past. To us, they represent a great solution for adding density to more spread-out, car-intensive, suburban areas–a vitally...
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Pop Up Apartment Defies Expectations, Physics
File this Dutch-university-student-designed Pop.up Apartment under the no-freaking-way category. Relying on polypropylene sheets that slide along motorized guides in the floor, the 50 sq m (538 sq ft)...
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Simply Stunning, Sunny Studio
It’s hard to believe that Caroline Van Ranst’s Antwerp studio is only 430 sq ft. Designed by Komaan! Architecture, the space relies on a very light color palate, open floorplan and ample built-in...
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Italian Apartment Makes Micro Seem Huge
We’ve seen some pretty damn small apartments on this site. There was Felice Cohen’s 90 sq ft studio, Steve Sauer’s 183 sq ft triplex and countless tiny houses, the latter of which rarely break the 200...
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How to Make a One Bedroom Apartment Work for a Family
Most parents rise before their kids and go to sleep after them (on good days, that is). When this is the case and size is at a premium, making a living room that doubles as a parent’s bedroom can make...
View ArticleWhat is Your Home’s Power/Weight Ratio?
If you’re a car-nut, you know the importance of a car’s power-to-weight ratio. You know that a car with 300 hp and weighs 6K lbs will accelerate slower than a car with 150 hp and weighs 1500 lbs...
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Only Thing Tiny Apartment Lacks is Clever Description
Okay, it might not be as small as last week’s 75 sq ft Roman sliver of an apartment, but at a mere 86 sq ft, this Parisian flat still qualifies as ultra-tiny. Amazingly, like its continental cousin,...
View ArticleThis Transforming Van Got Back
Perhaps it’s just us, but when temperatures descend in the northern parts of the northern hemisphere, ideations about packing everything in and heading south tend to arise. Should one be so nomadically...
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Follow Up on the World Changing Ten Foot Cube
About a year ago we featured the NOMAD Micro Home, a tiny, affordable, easy-to-assemble, put-anywhere house with smart and modern architecture. Beyond its good looks, the post became one of our most...
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A Case for Bringing Back the Residential Hotel
Up until its condominium conversion in 2005, Barbizon 63 was a paragon of compact, efficient living in New York City. For most of its life, the building was used as a women’s “residential hotel.”...
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Mansions for All!
Inspired by yesterday’s post about residential hotels, we thought we’d look at how other nations handle clean, safe and affordable housing for single folks. In Japan, there is something called called...
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Decompress (and Compress) at this Small Spanish Apartment
Moveable walls are a familiar and useful tool in maximizing the function of a small space. We incorporated it into the LifeEdited Apartment, Gary Cheng did it, Clei Furniture used it in their Elastic...
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World’s First Alpine, Micro, All-Wood, Alien-esque Cabin
The Ufogel has been making the rounds online as of late, and we thought we’d take a look at this futuristic wooden cabin (capsule?) perched on a slope in the Tyrollean Alps. The name is an alloy of UFO...
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Big Personality, Small Apartment
We have a tendency of showcasing sleek, somewhat futuristic small apartments on this site, and while we are quite unapologetic about this, it is by no means the only aesthetic available to small space...
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An Attic You Wouldn’t Mind Being Trapped In
With their sloping roofs and associations with housing unwanted family members, the poor attic has a hard time being recognized as a legitimate place to live. This situation makes Italian architect...
View ArticleData Driven Architecture
One of this site’s most popular posts to date is “Residential Behavioral Architecture 101.” The reason, I believe, is how it shows the gulf between how our homes are used and how they are designed, not...
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The Smarter Bunker
Transforming interiors are cool and all to look at, but it takes a lot more to make a great building, one whose interior, common spaces and exterior serve individual, community and neighborhood alike....
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The Perfect Medium (House)
We have a tendency to focus on extremes. We’re either writing about how American homes are super-duper big or we’re pointing to some 86 sq ft Parisian flat. We don’t tend to look in the middle: homes...
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